Resources to Support Your EffortsHealth & Economic Development

PostDecember 7, 2009

Review these resources to understand how economically stable and prosperous communities influence the health of residents; the economic benefits of pursing mixed-use and equitable development; and tools to leverage investment in your community.

Find resources designed to improve healthy food access in communities, build local economies and enhance public health. The website highlights current efforts and relevant resources to serve community members and policymakers working to improve access to healthy food retail.

Looking for a robust, user friendly tool to help you understand your communities’ food environment? The USDA has partnered with other top organizations in 2012 to develop the Food Environment Atlas. The Atlas assembles statistics on three broad categories of food environment factors:

Through case studies of Detroit and Oakland, this report demonstrates innovative steps to repair our broken food delivery networks into a system that promotes health, economic and social equity, and sustainability. Download the report from PolicyLink.

The toolkit promotes equitable outcomes by providing tools to support smart, intentional strategies that ensure low-income communities and communities of color participate in and benefit from decisions that shape their neighborhoods through a menu of tools to reverse patterns of segregation and disinvestment, prevent displacement, and promote equitable revitalization.

This toolkit, from ChangeLab Solutions, defines the connections between economic development and health and provides a comprehensive overview of financing and program strategies within the economic development and redevelopment arena to improve community health.

In 2007, Center for Disease Control convened an expert review panel of public health and land use experts to review the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) rating system. This fact sheet reviews features of the LEED-ND rating system that could contribute to several health benefits.